Divas: A very versatile salad for Memorial Day

Here’s a picnic safe salad recipe to feed a crowd this holiday. Make extra as it doubles as a make-ahead lunch, dinner or side dish that stays crisp and appetizing all week. The variety of add-in possibilities are limited only by your imagination, making certain you won’t get totally sick of it the second day. Sound good?

By Patti Diamond Divas on a Dime

May 27, 2016 - 6:19 am

Here’s a picnic safe salad recipe to feed a crowd this holiday. Make extra as it doubles as a make-ahead lunch, dinner or side dish that stays crisp and appetizing all week. The variety of add-in possibilities are limited only by your imagination, making certain you won’t get totally sick of it the second day. Sound good?

The secret to a salad that stands the test of time is to use hearty greens, not flimsy lettuce. I’m talking green cabbage, red cabbage and kale. The salad base is very versatile and packed with fiber, vitamins and essential nutrients. But more importantly, it’s delicious.

For this holiday weekend, create the fresh, crunchy, chopped salad base then pick a recipe suggestion below and mix it all together for a voluptuous salad to accompany grilled chicken, kabobs, hamburgers or steaks.

To have salad that lasts all week long, you make the base salad then rotate your add-ins to offer flavor variations. The variety and quantity of the add-on ingredients are your preference. No more salad fatigue.

To make the salad base, chop a half head each of green and purple cabbage and a small bunch of kale to make approximately 16 cups. This combination is inexpensive to buy and won’t get wilted and slimy in two days. Another great thing about this versatile combination is you can sauté it to serve as a hot dish or add a handful to soups or casseroles.

For a week’s worth of hearty salads, make the base salad, store it undressed and separate from the other salad ingredients. For convenience later in the week, spend some free time chopping other hearty ingredients like carrots, celery, radishes and green onion so they’re ready when you are. Prepare the more delicate ingredients like tomato, avocado, red or white onion right before you want to serve the salad.

The Nye County Republican Central Committee, with the participation of the Pahrump Valley Times, hosted a GOP debate last weekend for the contenders vying for the Republican vote in the 2020 primary election, with nearly three dozen candidates joining in to tackle a variety of topics pertinent to their various offices and thousands of voters watching over two days of discourse and debate.

The Pahrump Fall Festival is, hands down, the single largest community event in the valley each year but over the past few years, it has been dwindling a bit in terms of participation by vendors offering merchandise and goodies for the thousands of people who turn out on a regular basis. With this in mind, town and county officials have made the decision to revise the vendor booth fee schedule, lowering the prices in an effort to attract more vendors and make the 2020 Fall Festival a resounding success.

It’s been more than two months since the last community gathering was held in Pahrump and though certain restrictions are still in place regarding the number of people allowed to congregate in public or private settings, the town is now readying for the first large-scale public event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada, its annual Movies in the Park.

Pahrump Valley motorists who regularly travel along Leslie Street might want to consider another route this Thursday and Friday, May 28 and 29, as the repaving project for the stretch of Leslie Street between Basin Avenue and Irene Street is set to take place over the next two days.

More than seven months after the Storm Area 51 event that had Nye County in an official state of emergency, the county now has a view of just how much the event cost it, with a reported $363,000 in unbudgeted expenses connected to the phenomenon that grew out of what was originally intended as a social media joke.

Even as we see improvement in the current pandemic, but continue the process of quarantine, isolation, hibernation and social distancing, do what you can by continuing to work at home, work with government programs and creditors.

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